Originally Posted by jppe
Next time you're down this way please let me know! I'm on the north side of Charlote and would love to hook up for a ride. We have some routes that are flatter than others as well so could easily come up with something that would suit your needs.
Hills....unfortunately just gotta do them over and over......
Promise to look you up the next time I get down there. The group ride I did was out of Mint Hill and went mostly east fom there...pretty challenging.
I did notice that by the end of the second week, I was making better time. Two things I found (I think). First was to stay off the big ring (i.e. spin like everyone has been advising) and the second was to coast downhill and not waste a bunch of energy trying to go fast. That seemed to leave me some energy to attack the next uphill. Frankly I am glad to be back in the flats--now if the wind chill would just get above 5, I would be happy.